To: DJT From: McConnell Since the Romney attack, it’s clear that much of the GOP establishment will fight your nomination tooth-and-nail, won’t support you after you win, would prefer Hillary. One guy who advises Marco on foreign policy took that further and said he’d prefer mass murderer Joseph Stalin to you. This attitude...

BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas. The Week That WasEuropean Central Bank MeetingThe European Central...

PARIS – Manchester City are well set to make Champions League history and alleviate the misery engulfing English football’s heavyweights as they take on Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday. …read more Source: Bangkok...

PARIS (AFP) – Manchester City are well set to make Champions League history and alleviate the misery engulfing English footballs heavyweights as they take on Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday.City have never yet made it beyond the last 16 in Europes premier club competition but hold a 3-1 lead from the first leg in the Ukraine.Although Manuel...

Jamaica has been listed among the top three deadliest places for British nationals to visit globally. The deadliest places for British tourists to visit around the world have been revealed to be Pakistan, Tunisia and Jamaica, which were listed as the three top murder hotspots for British holidaymakers, the latest figures have shown. It comes...

SHCHASTYA, Ukraine—The late winter weather in Ukraine alternates among frigid, cool, snow, and rain—teasing the arrival of spring. The 2-year-old war, which has ravaged eastern Ukraine, killing more than 10,000 and displacing more than 1 million, is as fickle as the weather—teasing the possibility of peace without ever achieving it. Both sides of...

Duo who prank-called many influential critics of Russia deny links to its security services … but would they spoof Putin?Lexus and Vovan are fast gaining a reputation as the most mischievous men in Russia. The pair of professional prank callers, real names Alexei Stolyarov and Vladimir Kuznetsov, have claimed scalps as diverse as Elton John and...

Denis Balibouse/ReutersDismissed by critics as a diplomatic dandy, hailed by allies as a creative consensus-builder, Staffan de Mistura takes the hot seat in Geneva on Monday as the man in charge of forging peace in Syria. In an impeccable suit and pince-nez spectacles, the Swedish-Italian diplomat looks as though he’d be more comfortable...

FILE – In this file photo taken on June 5, 2014, a man rides a bicycle through a devastated part of Homs, Syria. Photo: AP BEIRUT: The Syrian conflict has had outsized impact on global politics. Five ways the world has changed: RISE OF ISLAMIC STATE It was in the vacuum of the deteriorating Syria conflict that a little-known and horrifically...